Putting Advent, Life, and Christmas in Perspective
Chapel 12.07.2017- Putting Advent, Life, and Christmas in Perspective Transcript: Papers and all the rest, so the stress level is getting pretty high around…
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The Best Way To End One Year And Start Another: Thanksgiving, Advent, Christmas and New Years
How does your year end? For many of us, the year closes with a rush of holidays in rapid succession—Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s…
Books I Received For Christmas 2011
So what did you receive for Christmas? The famous Christian humanist Desiderius Erasmus once said, “When I get a little money I buy books;…
The Arrival of a Death Camp Liberator: Seeing Christmas in a Different Light
This has not been a typical December for me. I’ve had two friends die. In fact, I just returned from the funeral of one…
Church Shopping Through the Ages: Refining Your Checklist
Church shopping. I hate the phrase. It sounds so….consumeristic! But at one point in our lives, most of us do it. Even pastors do…
Lingering Seasonal Thoughts on the Tenth Day of Christmas
By most counts Christmas is over. Even Christian radio has stopped playing Christmas songs. In the marketplace green and red decorations are coming down…
The Greatness of Jesus
It is usually little moments, experiences or phrases in the Christmas season that bring the biggest, most treasured spiritual insights. For me, they might…
Tree Cutting and the Search for the Perfect (Christmas) Tree
Last year this time, we took a trip not far from our home in Colorado up to Vail Pass to hunt for our Christmas…
Why Do We Need the Lausanne Movement? (Lausanne/Cape Town Memo #14)
After a week here in Cape Town at Lausanne III, two more convictions stand out. First, the evangelical movement worldwide is growing, outpacing many…
The Shift of the Christian Center (Lausanne/Cape Town 2010 Memo #13)
Where is the center of the Christian world? I remember having a conversation with my dad about this back in the 1980s. At the…